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On the acquisition of abstract knowledge: Structural alignment and explication in learning causal system categories
Publication · October 16, 2024
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
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Understanding the mechanisms of learning is one of the central questions of Cognitive Science. Recently Marcus et al. showed that seven-month-old infants can learn to recognize regularities in simple language-like stimuli. Marcus propos...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Analogical Processes in Language Learning
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Introduction Language acquisition is a complex task, encompassing (at least) perception and categorization of phonemes, segmentation of speech, learning word meanings, and extracting morphological and syntactic regularities. The dauntin...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Prelinguistic Relational Concepts: Investigating Analogical Processing in Infants.
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This research asks whether analogical processing ability is present in human infants, using the simplest and most basic relation-the same-different relation. Experiment 1 (N = 26) tested whether 7- and 9-month-olds spontaneously detect ...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Analogical comparison aids false belief understanding in preschoolers
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Analogical comparison has been found to promote learning across many conceptual domains. Here, we ask whether this mechanism can facilitate children’s understanding of others’ mental states. In Experiment 1, children carried out compari...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Well-Hidden Regularities: Abstract Uses of in and on Retain an Aspect of Their Spatial Meaning
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Prepositions name spatial relationships (e.g., book on a table). But they are also used to convey abstract, non-spatial relationships (e.g., Adrian is on a roll)-raising the question of how the abstract uses relate to the concrete spati...
Publication · October 16, 2024
The specificity of the labeling effect on memory: what kinds of labels improve retrieval?
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Relational retrieval—retrieval that is based on common relational structure, such as an underlying principle or pattern, is typically rare. Previously, we found that providing relational labels at encoding and/or test can improve relati...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Sensitivity to Relational Si milarity and Object Similarity in Apes and Children Highlights
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relational thinking d Both 3-year-old children and Pan species spontaneously used relational similarity d But human children used more object similarity; they were more concrete than Pan d Paradoxically, wemay be smarter than apes also ...
Publication · October 16, 2024
Language as cognitive tool kit: How language supports relational thought.
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The extreme version of the Whorfian hypothesis-that the language we learn determines how we view the world-has been soundly rejected by linguists and psychologists alike. However, more moderate versions of the idea that language may inf...
Publication · October 16, 2024